In 2004, John Kerry routinely attacked President Bush's handling of Iraq when things weren't going well in the country. And the media dutifully reported on Bush's foreign policy blunders in Iraq. But now, instead of scrutinizing Obama's handling of a foreign policy crisis, the media has decided that the real story in Egypt and Libya is a Mitt Romney gaffe.

And let's not hear any more about the inappropriateness of Romney's critique from partisans of a party with a Senate leader who declared the Iraq war lost while our soldiers were still on the battlefield and in harm's way. (http://www.youtube.com/embed/sYZEGot-xU4).